by Jordana Choucair | Jan 30, 2023 | Inequities and SDOH
CVS Health launched the Community Equity Alliance, an initiative aimed at addressing barriers to care in underserved communities. The initiative will fund three partners – Meharry Medical College, Sinai Chicago, and Wayne State University – for locally tailored...
by Jordana Choucair | Jan 25, 2023 | Inequities and SDOH
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the NYU Grossman School of Medicine launched a new dashboard that aims to help policymakers examine and eliminate disparities. The tool compiles 36 key measures of health (e.g., deaths from cardiovascular disease and breast...
by Jordana Choucair | Jan 20, 2023 | Inequities and SDOH
The Commonwealth Fund posted a new blog indicating that Medicare beneficiaries of color are more likely to rely on informal caregivers for home health. Among home health users, Black (non-Hispanic) and Hispanic Medicare beneficiaries reported, on average, that they...
by Jordana Choucair | Jan 10, 2023 | Inequities and SDOH
Black medical trainees were far more likely to carry a heavier debt burden than their peers in other racial and ethnic groups, according to a study published in Health Affairs. The study found trainees from nearly all underrepresented populations in medicine were...
by Jordana Choucair | Dec 20, 2022 | Inequities and SDOH
The Biden administration released a plan to reduce homelessness 25 percent by 2025. The administration encouraged state and local governments to create their own plans using All In, a blueprint developed by the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness (USICH). The...
by Jordana Choucair | Nov 22, 2022 | Inequities and SDOH
A recent Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) analysis indicates that people with impaired vision aren’t getting the health care they need. According to the study, 50.2 percent of people with vision impairment said they had fair or poor general health...
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